"Have a great day and watch out."
Koa Rothman, middle son of North Shore enforcer Fast Eddie Rothman and brother to big-wave world champion Makua, makes a great on-camera talent.
He has a golden-brown glazed handsomeness and is sharp enough to ad lib his way through twenty-five minutes or so of his day-to-day life as a pro surfer for his blog This is Livin’.
Koa, who is twenty-six, distinguishes himself among surfers, and media, also, for his candour.
Two years ago, when there was a there was a commotion over a minor wrestle between the Hawaiian Tanner Hendrickson and Brazilian Michael Rodrigues that ended with Tanner being fined and disqualified from the Pipe trials, he described the WSL as “a bunch of fucking corporate pussies…Are they fucking out of their minds?”
Rodrigues, said Rothman, was also a “pussy” for calling the cops.
Today, in a post on Instagram, Koa posted a provocative pre-North Shore winter message that bears examining.
“What’s happening you guys. I have an announcement. This year, this winter here in Hawaii, 2020, 2021, I will be going on whatever wave I want at pipeline. So. That being said, there is only a few people out there that I will not drop in. So. Yeah. No hard feelings. I’m not trying to be a dick. I’m just letting you know now that is what is going to be happening. So have a great day and watch out.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqj9Tzg3o2/
A gauntlet beautifully thrown, yes?
Now, who you suppose those few surfers who don’t get the hammer are?
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Talk is cheap..unless your Dads name is Eddie.
Looks like a punk to me.
I approve this message. Frankly we need more shit like this.
Yeah and it will nothing to the scrap on the shoreline when the miller sisters run into Margarita Salyak after Kelly ran off on kalani for a gap year in Bali with her
Cant wait to see him pull this off during the pipemasters.
i guarantee – I FUCKING GUARENTEE – Koa Rothman will not be dropping in on me at Pipeline this season.
is it weird koa speaks with a different accent than his thug of a brother? is that faux-pidgin tongue put on by makua?
not sure about this kid.
White Jewish Hawaiian lives matter too you facists.
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Not sure if he’s being serious or not but either way I don’t really see a problem with it. He already gets the waves he wants anyway – he’s just being polite enough to announce it publicly.
Where I do have a problem with most pro’s or “enforcers” is that they take their “I’m gonna take any wave I want at my local” attitude everywhere they go with them. If you want to be a cunt and burn any visitors at your local, you’d better be damn well prepared to get faded on every wave at any other location and earth, and keep your fucking mouth shut about it.
I mean, we all remember the hissy fit the Hawaiians threw the last time the son of a North Shore enforcer got called out for burning everyone at Burleigh, don’t we?
As the manling Prince waketh to cast knew knowledge of rule upon the infertile dreaming
of any and every unwoken traveller , wax dribbling from the digitisation in the minds semi paranoid earlobe , he hath indeed claimeth one small notion, as the man child, as the unforgotten son, a claim akin to one no Doubt heathenised by a dreaming unlike any other, # my waves or I,LL tell my dad# one claim for the bogan of the universe , the westy Duke has said no Doubt, a waxling daub among an ocean of infinite egos, kindling,.. a shallow face indeed.
So who will step up and bust down the door 2020 style and what would that even look like? Maybe a DM to koa explaining the bad vibes he will create in the water and he should just chill and let the VALs catch some waves coz it’s like their turn you know.
Koa Will Go
Can`t wait for the COVID Mid-length VAL attack on the North Shore this season
Is he fighting his fights there or will him call his daddy or friends? hahahaha
Order ’em out of the water, lock ’em all in the dog cage and piss on ’em. Makes for a far more orderly line up. What doesn’t kill ya…
Reads like a successful marriage of the past
North Narrabeen finishing school for boys ?
I have a held theory , since 1985 ,that 90% of pro free surfers are more competitive than surfers who actually compete in competition , willing to put their surfing souls on the line for judges and the general surfing public , all 105 of us ( the 5 are the judges ), to stamp and squeeze and ridicule and tear into tiny pieces , pick apart atom by atom , while the cunty pro free surfer chooses his clip of 5 minutes from 6 months of surfing , dropping and fading one and all , in a so called non competitive environment , just so he / she / it can get the shot ?
Even worse are the super competitive surfers who will never compete , but paddle inside and drop in on everyone , all the time ….. while claiming to be to cool to compete ?
Free surfing lineups are about as organic a competition as man participates within.
Hi Hippy ….. could you please expand on your use of the word organic in this context for my feeble mind ?
As in Carbon Compounds , or Natural , or Evolutionary survival of the fittest adapt or die organic competition ?
No need to contrive anything, organic.
Like on Tav….. I call that social Darwinism. Sub groups align based on skill. Happens every trip.
You’re not feeble in any intellectual way. You could probably eviscerate me in 3 languages that I can’t understand.
You grew up surfing comps and are proud of that, should be I guess. Where I live, we distrusted the orgs and the comps were held in shitty waves. If a comp set up at our beach, we would snake everyone and mark our territory.
That’s all this kid on Oahu is doing with his phone.
Social Darwinism …. have I practiced at surf spots around the world …… but not its evil brother evolutionary humanism , ever !
BTW, good morning Bicko. Gotta go surf as my internal promise is to forego weekend surfing and the chaos that ensues. It’s bad for my mental health as I am sure you can tell needs no further prompting.
Ride Hard !
You haven’t forgotten the erection during lulls comment are you?
Never forgive , never forget ….. now get out there !
Hasta luego compadre…..
Adiós
I agree and there’s nothing worse than when one of these so-called pro-free-surfers is haggling and being all cunty because they’re trying to get the shot, emboldened by some twisted idea that they deserve more waves because they’re ‘working’.
Fuck I’ve heard his dick mate Kemper yell that a bunch of times over the last few years.
Massive flog
Looks like he is doing it as a joke, no? Doesn’t really come across as an asshole generally
Maybe he needs let his eyebrows grow together to take him more seriously?
He could then become Frida Kahlo the Nihilist ?
Just be careful talking about Nihilists….. they might cut off your Johnson !
https://youtu.be/7L2qP-xQ_7o
If I cared about anything I’d say I like the new handle Jimmy, but I dont, so I wont.
I felt I needed a new harder image, I’m not sure how many got the Bruce Springsteen reference – JTS is a doomed motor racing character of his from the song Lost in the Flood, but I think it made me sound like a sanctimonious prick!
Definitely sweeter than Jimmy the kneecapper ?
You are giving me ideas!
Watch out for the thoughtcrime police !
I looked for that Romain Gary book, no joy, seems to be out of print, think it had an English title of Ski Bum. Just started on Down and Out in Paris and London two days ago.
Hope you enjoy it ….. I was actually dish pigging at the time , down and out , having an absolute ball , day and night in Sud Ouest France , surfing , working and a partying 24/7 when I read it in 93 or 94 ..
Try also Romain Gary’s Les Racines du Ciel ( The roots of Heaven in English )
I’m white and sanctimonious but I’m only 55 so luckily I dont fall into the BG demographic. At all.
1965er
indeed! you too right?
1965 represent.
I thought we were all dead!
From the knees down nad the neck up. Kind of opposite to the swimsuits when we were lads.
here
Shitfire, guys… imma older than all of you. ’62er
Twas a very good year …..
MAWS Vs. MAWN.
MAWN Lower ….. turning Crass into Grass ?
I thought so. Probably come out with another telling us it was a goof?